Classical Ping
Wagner!!!
Better French Horn parts!
Wagner.
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I’m a musical dilettante but Verdi is one of my favorite composers. His requiem is some of the strongest most hair raising music ever created. Though I like Wagner, I read that you have to be German to truly get him.
Wagner. He’s German and liberals hate him. If Adolf liked him he’s gotta be cool.
(just propagating the liberal myth)
Kill the Wabbit !!! Kill the Wabbit !!!
actually I like Verdi’s Requiem..
I just like the music.
Joe Green.
Wider array of all styles.
Wagner. A man one biographer called “meaner than Hitler,” but a great composer.
Don't get me wrong...I love the more romantic Verdi and never tire of listening to his magical music.
Leni
I’m probably the ony FReeper who has sung the operas of both of these titans on some of the great stages of the world. Comparing the two is a waste of time and fools who insist that either is greater only reveal their ignorance.
She’s sweet on Wagner,
I think she’d die for Beethoven.
She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
and Verdi’s always creepin’ from her room.
- ELO Rockaria
Neither one....Puccini....
This is a war that doesn't need to be fought.
Each great in his own way.
I prefer Verdi just because when Wagner occasionally gets too full of himself, it is monumentally, painfully ponderous, in a uniquely German sort of way. I have nothing against the Germans, I studied German for 10+ years and lived in Bavaria. But they do have their quirks. Of course so do the Italians, but somehow it isn't as painful - a shout, an explosion, and it's over.
Both. It is essentially a meaningless question.
Italian opera leaves me cold somehow or other. Opera composers I enjoy listening to include Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Bizet, and Offenbach, and you might could add Scott Joplin to the list on the strength of the one opera TreeMonisha.
Answer: Verdi.
Comment: He has light feet.
I say both, depending on my mood.
I like them both .
This number is ..... well, no doubt what Wagner had on his mind when he scored this.
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Liebestod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSEoZcntdNU
Wow!